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5 simple tips for creating a stunning lesson on TinyTap
National Make a Difference Day
In honor of National Make a Difference Day, Ellen Weber, EdS, CCC-SLP, shares how TinyTap has made a difference in her students’ lives. As a Speech-Language Pathologist, I work with special needs students who struggle daily to make even minimal progress learning. They often feel like they are failures at everything, and more often than not will eventually quit trying. They are teased and called “stupid” by their peers, and often go home to a family who considers them just “lazy”. Because of … Read More
Weekly Creation Theme: Halloween
Few holidays are as exciting for kids as Halloween! The costumes, decorations – and the sugar – give them such a rush! Use this time of year to your advantage and engage your students by creating TinyTap games about Halloween. Here are a few ideas: Take your players through a haunted house, where each tap on the soundboard will lead them into a different spooky room, dark hallway, or creaky staircase Review safety tips for trick-or-treating Make a math … Read More
National Stop Bullying Day
National Stop Bullying Day is coming up on October 14th – here are some ideas on how to bring awareness and compassion into your classroom using TinyTap! Ellen Weber‘s TinyTap game based on Maria Dismondy’s award-winning book The Juice Box Bully encourages students to take a proactive stand against bullying. The lesson includes a vocabulary soundboard, narrative elements exercises, plus an extension activity allowing students to share their own experiences with bullying. Red Chair Press‘ dedicates two of … Read More
Weekly Creation Theme: Outer Space
Celebrate International Space Week (October 4-10, 2015) with TinyTap! Creator Ellen Weber is here with some ideas to make your lessons out-of-this-world: Create a shape puzzle of the solar system and have your students slide the planets into the correct order. Add video of a space mission to your TinyTap lesson to bring your students on a journey beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Of course, there are also lots of “Space” activities already available in the TinyTap Marketplace – check them out! Alternatively, … Read More
Introducing: TinyTap Smart Play
Give less thought to learning more: Choose your starting point and let TinyTap personalize a playlist just for you. With tens of thousands of educational activities created in 30+ languages by teachers from around the world, TinyTap’s Market is the place to learn about anything! … But finding the games that best suit you can be overwhelming! Enter: Smart Play. Choose any game as your starting point, and TinyTap will automagically play next best game for you! Smart … Read More